Police: Officers shoot, kill knife-wielding man in Scottsdale

Scottsdale Police Department PIO Kevin Watts briefs the media on an officer-involved shooting that took place in a shopping center at 92nd Street and Shea Boulevard in Scottsdale on Wednesday, July 27.
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Scottsdale police shot and killed a man who lunged at an officer with a knife Wednesday evening, officials said.

Two officers had been trying to locate the man, who witnesses said had been acting erratically and "just not right" in a shopping center near 92nd Street and Shea Boulevard, said Kevin Watts, a Scottsdale police spokesman.

Someone called police about the man at about 5 p.m. Officers found him in front of the local Sprouts Farmers Market and followed him toward Chompies deli, in the southeast portion of the McCormick Ranch Center parking lot.

Watts said that, at one point, the man pulled out a knife and lunged at one of the officers. It wasn't clear whether one or both officers fired their weapons. The man, whose name was not released, died at the scene, Watts said.

Neither officer was harmed.

Employees standing outside businesses later in the evening said that the plaza owner had gone around to tell them to lock their doors and stay inside during the police situation.